From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Supplant the "while case ... break ;; esac" idiom Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:33:42 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <853ax5mb1j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85myvdktb3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <7vhcllc9bz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <85ps08k2fj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86bqbsta3g.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <7vodfr8wts.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <85hcljgtlr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <7v4phj6yxb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 25 12:34:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ia7kj-0001r0-FF for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:34:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751793AbXIYKer (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:34:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751794AbXIYKer (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:34:47 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:58962 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751752AbXIYKeq (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:34:46 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2007 10:34:44 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO openvpn-client) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp047) with SMTP; 25 Sep 2007 12:34:44 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/TKeFh83vTETaLKb7rsyeUSWZ8tmql4Vtv0dVbdT 0cHYVUy4M6Qfbm X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <7v4phj6yxb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > David Kastrup writes: > > > As a completely irrelevant side note: the autoconf documentation > > mentions that "false" is more portable than "true" since calling it > > returns a non-zero exit status even when it is not installed or > > built-in. > > Ah, I like that ;-) It is obvious when you think about it, and it is so > true but in a very twisted way... But would you not have to redirect stderr to /dev/null, then? In the same vein, we could replace "true" by "! false". That's such a good idea that I'll go and make a patch. Ciao, Dscho